Yoshihiro Tajiri

Tajiri is one of those wrestlers who made you feel the danger the moment his music hit — a guy from Yokohama who went to Philadelphia's ECW and somehow became one of the most legitimately frightening presences in the room, and that's before he ever threw a kick. That buzzsaw leg kick of his wasn't theater; it looked like it actually hurt, because it probably did. His run with WWE in the early 2000s was genuinely fun — the tarantula stretch locked in the ropes, the green mist, the whole "quiet intensity" thing he had — but I always thought he was slightly misused once the gimmick novelty wore off for the bookers. The guy could work. He kept going long after most would have stopped, doing his own thing on the indie scene and in Japan, which honestly says more about a performer's love for the craft than any title reign ever could.

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Yoshihiro Tajiri is a Japanese professional wrestler born on September 29, 1970, in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Known by the ring name TAJIRI, he gained international recognition competing on the global professional wrestling circuit. He operates an official website at japanesebuzzsaw.com and maintains an active presence on X (formerly Twitter). He debuted in 1994, rose to international fame in ECW and WWE, and now wrestles for Kyushu Pro-Wrestling.

Name (English)

Yoshihiro Tajiri

Name (Japanese)

TAJIRI

Reading

たじり

Born

September 29, 1970 (age 56)

Origin

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Height

175cm

Occupation

Professional Wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dog

• Official sitehttp://www.japanesebuzzsaw.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/TajiriBuzzsaw
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAJIRI
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q549808

Tags

• From Kanagawa
• Professional Wrestler

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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